NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Marianne Crebassa / Duncan Ward
Haydn / Berio / Farrenc – Hamburg International Music Festival
Louise Farrenc: an exceptional phenomenon
Composition has always been a male domain – as a woman, Louise Farrenc is one of the few exceptions in music history. The French composer’s models were Beethoven and Haydn, and Mendelssohn and Schumann were her German competition. Her work was performed internationally when she was alive, but the self-confident composer was soon forgotten after her death – unjustly so according to the Financial Times. In 2018, the newspaper said of Farrenc’s Symphony No. 3: »The score is so well written that it deserves a prominent place in the history of the early Romantic symphony.«
British conductor Duncan Ward now breathes new life into that Third Symphony. Despite only being in his mid-thirties, Ward has already conducted world-class orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Performers
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester
Marianne Crebassa mezzo-soprano
conductor Duncan Ward
Programme
Joseph Haydn
Sinfonie B-Dur Hob. I:85 »La Reine«
Luciano Berio
Folk Songs
– Interval –
Louise Farrenc
Sinfonie Nr. 3 g-Moll op. 36
Estimated end time
20:00
Subscription
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Subscription F
Festival
Hamburg International Music Festival